Okay…after way more stress than I care to admit, I finally made the big move and here’s how it happened…
As early as early March I figured I had four more years at Santa Monica College. Ellie is entering high school at Crossroads and between the tuition there and the rent in Santa Monica…well, I was thinking the battle cry of every first term President…FOUR MORE YEARS! (let me skip politics to save my blood pressure)
To my pleasant surprise, the college offered a ‘golden handshake’ (simply put, 75% of 2019 salary paid over X number of years) for those who wanted to leave by the end of June.
So…let me get this straight…75% of my salary is almost the amount of tuition I need for Ellie until she graduates H.S.! Where do I sign???
I’ll spare you the number-crunching stress I put myself, JoAn and close friends through…I JUST DID IT!
As of June 17, 2020, I’ve been retired from the college…in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic no less!
I will save the …”what am I going to do now?” to future posts:)